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I was thinking of the sorts of freedoms you grant a child as he grows, especially things around the house. You let a 9 year old do more than a 5 year. What sorts of things are appropriate for a 9 year old?
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freedoms or chores? Two different things..
Chores/responsibilities around the house for a 9 year old, could be cleaning the bathroom, vacuuming, helping wash dishes. My kids have been doing all of those things for quite some time..
When they hit 6th/7th grade they started doing their own laundry, but I was teaching them to separate them before then.
freedom would be if they went to bed at say 8:00 before they could stay up till 8:30, or say 30 minutes extra playing a video game or time spent on the computer, or finishing a chapter of a good book.